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CVE-2023-46837

arm32: The cache may not be properly cleaned/invalidated (take two)

CVSS 3.3 LOWEPSS 0.2%CWE-119
Vexday Risk Score
8Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 3.3EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
05 Jan 2024Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
Arm provides multiple helpers to clean & invalidate the cache for a given region. This is, for instance, used when allocating guest memory to ensure any writes (such as the ones during scrubbing) have reached memory before handing over the page to a guest. Unfortunately, the arithmetics in the helpers can overflow and would then result to skip the cache cleaning/invalidation. Therefore there is no guarantee when all the writes will reach the memory. This undefined behavior was meant to be addressed by XSA-437, but the approach was not sufficient.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Xen · Xen

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